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Nursing Concepts

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What are the 5 interlocking components of cultural care?

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Cultural awareness

Cultural knowledge

Cultural skills

Cultural encounters

Cultural desire

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How can disparities in health care best be described?

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Populations with health disparities have a significantly increased incidence of disease or increased morbidity and mortality when compared to the health status of the general population.

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Which groups are most affected by health disparities?

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Racial and ethnical minority populations

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What is the goal of Healthy People 2020?

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Increasing life expectancy, quality of life, and eliminating disparities in health status of people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

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What is race?

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Limited to common biological characteristics shared by a group of people such as skin color.

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What is ethnicity?

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Shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as values, language, geographical space and racial characteristics.

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How is cultural competency described?

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The process of acquiring specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes to ensure delivery of culturally congruent care.

Check yourself at the door

AKSED

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What is an example of cultural awareness?

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An in-depth self-examination of one's own background, recognizing biases, prejudice, and assumptions about other people.

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What is an example of cultural knowledge?

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Obtaining sufficient comparative knowledge of diverse groups, including their indigenous values, health beliefs, care practices, worldview, and bicultural ecology.

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What is an example of cultural skills?

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Ability to assess social, cultural, and biophysical factors influencing treatment and care of patients.

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What is an example of cultural encounters?

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Engaging in cross-cultural interactions that provide learning of other cultures and opportunities for effective intercultural communication development.

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What is an example of cultural desire?

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The motivation and communication to caring that moves and individual to learn from others, accept the role as learner, be open and accepting of cultural differences,and build on cultural similarities.

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How is ethnohistory explained?

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Significant historical experiences of a particular group.

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Ethnohistory is based on experiences that a person has gone through, what is a good example of that?

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Someone who is frugal because of their experiences with the Great Depression.

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Why would a nurse benefit from including knowledge of ethnohistory into caring for a patient?

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By knowing what the patient has been through in their life could give a greater insight as to how they think and what care would be best for that particular patient.

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What is the proper procedure when utilizing an interpreter?

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Provide language assistance free of charge to all patients with limited English at all points of contact.

Notify patients verbally & written of their rights for an interpreter.

Use the patients family as interpreter only if the patient requests it.

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How can nurses intervene to achieve culturally congruent care?

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After the nurse knows what the patient believes its putting that knowledge into practice.

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What is culturally competent care?

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Aquiring specific knowledge, know where to gather the beliefs of that culture.

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How does a nurse achieve the skill of thinking critically?

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This type of thinking comes from experience, commitment, and active curiosity towards learning. Critical thinking and the nurse are interwoven. Only the RN may access and utilize critical judgement.

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In the role of social hierarchy, what is the role of women?

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Some cultures consult the women during illnesses and care of women and children.

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What is the role of the men in social hierarchy?

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They are the financial supporter and major decision makers.

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Why is self-reflection utilized?

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To clarify concepts by thinking back or recalling situations in order to learn from the experiences.

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How do concept maps improve clinical decision making?

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When you have a patient with multiple nursing diagnoses or collaborative problems. It is to better synthesis relevant data about a patient including assessment data, nursing diagnoses, health needs, interventions, and evaluations.

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What are the components of a critical thinking model for clinical decision making?

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Knowledge base

Experience

Critical thinking competencies

Attitudes

Standards

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Components of a critical thinker

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Truth seeking

Open-mindedness

Analytic approach

Systematic approach

Self-confidence

Inquisitiveness

Maturity

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How do professional standards influence a nurses clinical decisions?

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Refers to ethical criteria for nursing judgments, evidence-based criteria used for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility. This promotes the highest level of quality nursing care.

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Components of the assessment phase of the nursing process

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Evaluate

Diagnosis

Planning

Implementation

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What is the problem-oriented approach of data collection?

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Focus on the patients presenting situation and begin with problematic areas such as incisional pain or limited understanding of postoperative recovery.

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Subjective

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Patients verbal description of their health problem...only the patient provides.

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Objective

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Observations or measurements of a patients health status.

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What are the components of the health history?

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Physical and developmental

Emotional

Social

Intellectual

Spiritual

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Explain data validation

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Assessment data is the comparison of data with another source to determine data accuracy.

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Explain data interpretation

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Assessment information critically, you determine the presence of abnormal findings, recognize that further observations are needed to clarify information to begin to identify patients health problems.

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How can culture best be described?

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Integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.